Installing the Tabletop LTO-3 (Model B) Half-Height Tape Drive
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Note:
You cannot disable terminator power on a tabletop parallel SCSI drive.
Configuring the Tabletop Drive Parallel SCSI ID
Each device on the parallel SCSI bus must have its own unique SCSI ID. Use the push-
button SCSI ID selector switch on the drive back panel to change the SCSI ID of the
tabletop LTO-3 (Model B) Half-Height Tape Drive (see
Figure 8 Tabletop Parallel SCSI
ID Selector Switch
Note:
Parallel SCSI controllers and host adapters generally use ID 7. In some systems,
the boot drive uses ID 0 or ID 1. Avoid configuring the LTO-3 (Model B) Half-
Height Tape Drive to these SCSI IDs.
After configuring the parallel SCSI ID, proceed to
in the following subsection.
Connecting the
Tabletop Drive Interface
and AC Power Cables
As shown in
and
, the rear panels of the tabletop LTO-3 (Model B) Half-
Height Tape Drives have connectors for:
• Either a 68-pin parallel SCSI cable (two connectors), or a 26-pin SFF-8088 mini-SAS
style interface cable
already assigned to another
device,
change the configuration of either the other
device, or the LTO-4 Half-Height Tape Drive, as
described in the following subsection.
IF the default parallel SCSI ID
configuration is . . .
THEN you can . . .
Parallel SCSI ID selector switch
